From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:41736 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751275AbeEAXDl (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2018 19:03:41 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 May 2018 16:03:32 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Sinan Kaya Cc: alexander.levin@microsoft.com, davem@davemloft.net, stable-commits@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Patch "net: qlge: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs" has been added to the 4.16-stable tree Message-ID: <20180501230332.GA3081@kroah.com> References: <15252139793450@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 06:39:06PM -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote: > On 5/1/2018 6:32 PM, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote: > > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > net: qlge: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs > > > > to the 4.16-stable tree which can be found at: > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > > > > The filename of the patch is: > > net-qlge-eliminate-duplicate-barriers-on-weakly-ordered-archs.patch > > and it can be found in the queue-4.16 subdirectory. > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > > please let know about it. > > > > I don't think these should be pulled at this moment. There is still more barrier > work to be done and the patch below goes in the wrong direction after discussion > with Linus. > > I'm waiting for all architectures to reach to functional parity at the end of 4.17 > to pick up from where I left. > > There are still few architectures still violating writel() guarantee. Fair enough, thanks for the information, I'll drop this now. greg k-h